If anyone wants to discuss the game a bit, I run the official Subreddit at /r/Mother4. It's kind of a shame to see all of these negative comments - they have been working on this game for over 5 years.

I'm fairly excited for this, honestly. I've been wanting to play it for a while - if the extra development time was actually noticeable, count me in! Now Activision, can you take a page from good old Ubi and port Destiny?

@kensredemption No, he didn't. 90% of the praise is because the game "stepped outside of the box" in regards to the character. Yeah, she's a lesbian, whatever. The story itself is... mediocre at best. It feels like a bad short story.

Yep, this is definitely something I am going to install at the end of the generation on a 2DS. Considering the homebrew scene for Nintendo handhelds last for a while after release, this is exciting stuff.

I have extremely mixed feelings on this one. Considering Advanced Warfare will be the first truly new-generation Call of Duty, it is looking to take advantage of the hardware at every step along the way. I imagine that the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will be similar to the DS versions of CoD - handicapped, not altogether terrible, but far worse than the main releases. Depending on which iteration we get, we can safely know how much power a company like Activision could get of our little engine that could. And, honestly, I'd rather have no AW than a gimped one - this game is looking to finally bring me back into the CoD fold.

@XCWarrior Yeah, Microsoft and Sony lifted some of the restrictions. However, they would also be obliged to take advantage of the far more powerful hardware, which would put a huge dent in their budget.

Just as a note to @XCWarrior, they have confirmed that the game is releasing on the Wii U. However, they don't know if they have the budget for a release across the PS4, Xbox One, AND Wii U. Those consoles cost a ton more to develop for.Also, in a general regard to the story: a twin-stick 2D shooter from Two Tribes that focuses on in-level exploration? Count me in!

@jpelgrom Everything that they have promised that will be in the game is still in the production pipeline. After hearing a lot of people asking if they could still back the project in one way or another, they decided to open up that option. So far, they don't have plans for anything that will change gameplay on a fundamental level or add a ton of content.

You know, I am feeling extremely conflicted about the fact that Thomas didn't bring up the Advance Wars series. On one hand, they haven't made a game in the series for a while, so it makes sense to not really mention it. On the other hand, this also means that the Wars series is fading into obscurity; at least the Fire Emblem series is close enough to it for comfort. Honestly, I would be perfectly happy if Intelligent Systems became a third party developer and started making games for a variety of systems. Preferably sticking to Nintendo hardware as their system of choice (a la Naughty Dog), but occasionally making games for the PC and whatnot. Wouldn't a Wars game on the PC be completely fantastic? Let me answer that for you: yes.

So far, this really seems like simply a, well, less enticing A Hat in Time. I can see why they haven't gotten the necessary amount of money. I can imagine this game succeeding 15 years ago, but not now.

@cornishlee1) If you thought Skyward Sword was child-like compared to Ocarina of Time, you have some really odd opinions. I mean, I can't even tell what you would think about this game. I assume you would just call it far too childish as well.2) The bane of the universe.

The actual scenario was described in one of the Pokemon films: they are essentially digitized and put into a giant world with all the other Pokemon. So, yes, somewhere out there there is a lava pool where a couple hundred Groudons are kind of just chilling out, maybe playing chess.

To those people who are asking why this is 34.99 physical instead of 39.99: Nintendo wants people to not have to pull out change to pay that tax. Just slap two 20 dollar bills down and BAM, Animal Crossing. (Or something.)